Jigano nodded thoughtfully as the hazards of Halo travel were mentioned. Having traveled or flown over them, he knew how brutal they could be, but still he had hoped to find some way out that didn't involve relying on the portals.
"A final one more," the bard requested, not looking forward to the trek back to the portal so soon, and wanting to savor the warmth he could from the room and the cider before he faced it again. "What can you tell me of the lands on your borders, to the east and south?" He remembered the crudely drawn map that had been in one of Safrin's books, that Amalia had led them to last Flowerbirth. There had been a great deal of information contained within those tomes, but now that the barrier was down they could finally begin filling in the details on that general shape of the continent by putting together the clues of daylight and coastlines and mountains that they had to work from.
"A final one more," the bard requested, not looking forward to the trek back to the portal so soon, and wanting to savor the warmth he could from the room and the cider before he faced it again. "What can you tell me of the lands on your borders, to the east and south?" He remembered the crudely drawn map that had been in one of Safrin's books, that Amalia had led them to last Flowerbirth. There had been a great deal of information contained within those tomes, but now that the barrier was down they could finally begin filling in the details on that general shape of the continent by putting together the clues of daylight and coastlines and mountains that they had to work from.
